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So I was re-reading the Thousand Sons special rules and they noted that I had to have my compulsory troops with units with the same Arcana as my warlord.

With the Dark Age provenance, I have to fill my compulsory troops with Grenadier Squads...

Now I'm confused. Do I have to take four troops (two Thousand Sons with the same Arcana and two Grenadier squads)?

If so,

I don't have that many models.

Good question. I was talking about a similar thing in my thread (https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/717449.page)

I think the way I would read and play it would be that all compulsory troops that have the 1k sons Legion rules must have the same arcana as the warlord. However, I could see people forcing you to take your compulsory from the 1k sons list. But you wouldn't have to take any Militia/Cult squads as troops if you didn't want to. You would just have to meet the theme requirement of having more total Militia/Cult units than total marine units.

It just says compulsory troops must have the same Arcana not that you must have compulsory troops with the same Arcana.

If your compulsory choices don't have Arcana, it's not an issue.

I can only see this as being on a detachment by detachment basis. It even says under the Covenant of Sorcerers rule for a Thousand Sons 'Detachment' that the warlord of the army must be a Psyker with at least one Mastery level. It does not say that the Warlord must be from THAT detachment. So I can see a Rogue Psyker Warlord in a Cult Horde/Tainted Flesh provenance Primary detachment with allied Thousand Sons in order to facilitate this.

The wording of the Cult Arcana rules even specify what happens in the case of the Thousand Sons being the allied detachment, it just says they take the same cult as the 'Detachments' compulsory HQ (according to the force org chart for Allied Detachment)

Freakish1987 wrote:
I can only see this as being on a detachment by detachment basis. It even says under the Covenant of Sorcerers rule for a Thousand Sons 'Detachment' that the warlord of the army must be a Psyker with at least one Mastery level. It does not say that the Warlord must be from THAT detachment. So I can see a Rogue Psyker Warlord in a Cult Horde/Tainted Flesh provenance Primary detachment with allied Thousand Sons in order to facilitate this.

The wording of the Cult Arcana rules even specify what happens in the case of the Thousand Sons being the allied detachment, it just says they take the same cult as the 'Detachments' compulsory HQ (according to the force org chart for Allied Detachment)

The issue is that the Army of Dark Compliance theme does not have allies or anything. The theme lets you intermix between Legion units and Militia units. So it's all the same detachment.